The Anonymous Widower

Portuguese Pork

This is one of Lindsey Bareham’s recipes that I did last night. It’s here on The Times web site.

I cooked half quantities to give me enough for a good supper.

I started by taking a pork fillet, which Waitrose had cut in half. Each half was about 200 g.

Pork, Cumin And Lemon

I cut it into small pieces and then sprinkled it was half a teaspoon of cumin.  I also put some  lemon juice over it and mixed it up. I then chopped up a medium onion and softened it in a couple of tablespoons of olive oil, stirring every now and again. It took about ten minutes.

Cooking The Onion

I used my new Le Creuset shallow casserole and after cooking this dish, I wish I’d bought one earlier.

I then put two peeled garlic cloves and a small red chilli without the seeds and filament into my Little Chopper.

Chopping The Garlic And Chilli

This was then added to the casserole.

Onion, Garlic And Chilli

It was cooked for another five minutes, keeping it stirred.

I took a 400 g tin of chickpeas ans trained and rinsed them thoroughly. For this quantity of pork, I would only need half, but there didn’t seem to be any small tins of chickpeas.

I now turned up the heat slightly and added the pork stirring it constantly.

Cooking The Pork

After the pork had cooked, I added the chickpeas, half a chicken stock cube, 120 ml of boiling water and the remains of the cumin and lemon juice from the bowel.

Final Cooking

After simmering for perhaps 5 minutes, it was seasoned well and some finely chopped coriander was stirred in before serving.

Portuguese Pork

It was good and pretty spicy.

September 25, 2013 - Posted by AnonW | World | Lindsey Bareham, Pork, Recipe